On Tuesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle officiated over yet another session of commiseration about the actions of the new administration, with the usual heavy emphasis on Elon Musk and DOGE. Joining her was Reed Galen, author of The Home Front on Substack, who –without evidence – accused the administration and Musk, with media complicity, of leaning on recalcitrant officeholders in some vague and unspecified way.
During the nightly ritual of Trump/Musk/DOGE- bashing, Galen decided to pin the blame on Congress, including both parties, and said,
Republicans in Congress now are the lemmings, and Democrats are the headless chickens. There’s nobody…really minding the store over there…there used to be a time when Congress jealously guarded its place as a co-equal branch of government, and those days are over.